Cry, the beloved country.
When people actively take to social media and engage in racist commentary and engage in wide spread promotion of racism and division ostensibly on behalf of a political party.
@Olivia_LaGrange consistently engages in similarly divisive behaviour, but has now engaged in a direct “call to action” in which she demands that black people never vote for white people because of a perception that all white people are racist.
We can never hope to eradicate racism if we allow this sort of view to be propagated while claiming to be inclusive.
@Action4SA @AtholT @HermanMashaba @ME_Beaumont
ActionSA should properly condemn these mutterings, but they likely will not. As a party that has promoted xenophobia, it is unlikely that they draw the line at openly racist content like this.
@SAHRCommission
This sort of racism has become normalised because of characters like this who do not swiftly act to shut it down and confirm that it will not be tolerated.
18 thousand people have seen it so far. It has been reposted 227 times to yet more people. Many have liked it. This is the power of hatred spreading on a platform like this.
In our country, free speech has its limitations and one of them is hate speech. This is nothing short of hate speech and it should be condemned if our country is serious about promoting unity.
I pity the people who hold such racist views because they come from a place of immense ignorance but we must equally condemn such commentary and make it clear that it is a vile belief to hold that all members of a single group are racist.
What a sad day for our rainbow nation and democracy.
@PresidencyZA @CyrilRamaphosa @CilliersB @SollyMsimanga @IanCameron23